The Basic Constitutional Unfairness News Today

When i saw this article i had a few reactions. ill be totally honest and say that my first was, this is not good. i wondered if i had been duped by someone who it turned out was a cryptojihadi in waiting all along. my second reaction was that even if the story was true, and maybe it was, the point about the basic constitutional unfairness of the no-fly list still stood. i mean, if the government has enough to charge someone, they should charge him. but putting someone on the secret list that cur...

Allowed to fly home and visit his mother. now, this new article cited u.s. and turkish officials to say that long had been arrested earlier this month near the turkey-syria border as members of an isis cell. when i saw this article i had a few reactions. ill be totally honest and say that my first was, this is not good. i wondered if i had been duped by someone who it turned out was a cryptojihadi in waiting all along. my second reaction was that even if the story was true, and maybe it was, the...

By someone who it turned out was a cryptojihadi in waiting all along. my second reaction was that even if the story was true, and maybe it was, the point about the basic constitutional unfairness of the no-fly list still stood. i mean, if the government has enough to charge someone, they should charge him. but putting someone on the secret list that curtails their movement and rights without recourse is pretty clearly unjust. and in fact, it just so happens thats precisely the argument that basi...